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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

"Now you get these guys copying Wynton - copying a copy - and they sound like fucking clones. That's why I call these guys fucking androids. They're clones man." - Lester Bowie

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

"Well, it is a ritual. We try to prepare ourselves mentally to perform. When we go on the stage to perform we are there for that moment only, we try to spiritually condition ourselves to be open to receive whatever conflicts may happen, and shoot our way that particular evening."

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

"We have to think of the music not just as an academic experience, but as a very spiritual thing."

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

"People are afraid to expand their intellect. I'm trying to be creative, but I have a very broad scope, a very broad idea of what the possibilities are for this music. The main thing is to be creative, to be innovative."

Lester Bowie
born October 11, 1941

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

Photos by Paolo Ferraresi

Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

"There's something to be said for pureness of intent; otherwise, you might as well be somewhere else where nobody is listening."

Happy Birthday Billy Higgins
born October 11, 1936

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely. He is something else. You might enjoy the full interview here - artblakey.com/interview-tw...

Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

Photo by Shunji Okura

Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

"We're only here for a minute, just little people, small cogs in a big wheel. You're no big deal; so you get up and do your very best. You play to the people - not down to the people."

Happy Birthday Art Blakey
born October 11, 1919

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

"He asked, 'What you been thinking about when you wrote that?' I said, 'I don't know. I think I raised my glass to the people who came before us, the fighters, people who fought for our rights and justice for our people. It's just a salute to them.'" - Gil Scott-Heron

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

"We were boys, and at some point, we became brothers and became each other's family. Once that happened, then we were bonded to each other in a way that went beyond any creative output." - Brian Jackson

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

"We never really thought about whether we were going to be a writing team or not because we were friends. We loved hanging out together. More so than anything, we felt that the friendship would probably endure. It was really based on that. It was more personal than professional."

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

Photos by Tony Murphy

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 2h

"I can attest that there is something that happened in those years in the '70s that folks, young and old, still hunger for. We were where we needed to be when we needed to be there. It was magical, and I'm sure I'm better because of it."

Happy Birthday Brian Jackson
born October 11, 1952

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 4h

Sophie Agnel & Mark Sanders - Antlia

Sophie Agnel piano
Mark Sanders drums and percussion

Recorded by Olly Sansom on the 12th April 2025 at Sansom Studios before an invited audience.
Mixed by Alex Ward
released October 8, 2025
shrikerecords.bandcamp.com/album/antlia

Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 4h

Luz Prado Wade Matthews Abdul Moimême - Trust from intimacy

Luz Prado violin
Wade Matthews digital synthesis, field recordings manipulated in real time, amplified objects
Abdul Moimême guitar, objects and electronics

released October 9, 2025
scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/trust-...

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Dylan Nyoukis @chocolatemonk.co.uk · 2d

This Sunday in Brighton.

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Dylan Nyoukis @chocolatemonk.co.uk · Sep 5

Constance/Nyoukis cs 'The Final Fumes From The Soup Bowls' out now on New Forces

"Electronic yelps from the void. Mechanical gurgles a-plenty. Amphibian distress calls — fragmented, curled, stomped upon. Juddering rasps." - S.Glass

available at
chocolatemonk.co.uk/nonmonk.html

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 11h

Toc & Jean-Luc Guionnet - Quelques idées d’un vert incolore dorment furieusement

Jean-Luc Guionnet saxophone
Jérémie Ternoy Fender Rhodes, Piano Bass
Ivann Cruz guitar
Peter Orins drums

released October 4, 2025
circum-disc.bandcamp.com/album/quelqu...

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 11h

Vincent Courtois Colin Vallon - A Simple Fall

Vincent Courtois cello
Colin Vallon piano

released 10 October 2025
bmcrecords.hu/en/albums/co...

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 20h

Arne Van Dongen, Barre Phillips and Maggie Nicols - Antwerp, 2001. Photo by Gérard Rouy

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 22h

If you want something done properly...

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 22h

Carl Ludwig Hübsch - at Berlin Solo Impro 2024, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin

youtu.be/fCtKDfkq69c?...

Carl Ludwig Hübsch @ BERLIN SOLO IMPRO 2024

YouTube video by Volker Meitz

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 22h

Day Listens:

John Russell Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg - before the wedding
Frank Gratkowski Quartet - Le Vent et la Gorge
Sebi Tramontana & Natalie Peters - Live at Frequenze Libere
AXON Phil Minton Fred Van Hove Marcio Mattos Martin Blume - Constant Comments

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Malt Lick Nursery @maltlicknursery.bsky.social · 22h

Walter Lewy - Untitled, 1993, oil on canvas

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